Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing he was in the right , that she had taken a stupid risk , only made things worse . |
| 2 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 3 | The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life . |
| 4 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 5 | Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned . |
| 6 | After being pulled over , John sheepishly explained that he had taken a wrong turning for his home in Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 7 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 8 | It was not until 1881 that he decided to take a medical degree ; his work up to that time had been in the physiological laboratory under Brücke , where , for six years , he had studied the central nervous system . |